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The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) is one of ISF’s projects. It was the writer Sayed Fouad’s idea, as the African films are almost not screened in Egypt. Furthermore, Luxor hardly has any cultural or artistic events, and was therefore selected to de-centralize cultural or artistic events always oraginzed in Cairo and Alexandria.

Why Luxor City?

Though Luxor is the largest open-air museum in the world it was lacking artistic festivals. Its geographical position - in the very heart of Upper Egypt and hence closer to the rest of the African continent - gives the historic city a unique advantage .

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In its third edition, LAFF has a symposium under the title of" The scenarists `s dilemma in Egypt". The scenarist Naser Abd Il-Rahman, the scenarist Sayed Fouad, the president of LAFF, and the producer Muhammad Il-Adl participated in the symposium. It was run by the journalist Hassan Abu Il-Ila. 

Through the symposium, Naser Abd Il-Rahman talked about his experience of issuing 4 scenarios, non of them is published. " The student is the most person who makes use of them. He/she need